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Response to comment on "From memory to mastery: Optimizing AI models for ECG diagnostics in clinical practice".

Am J Emerg Med

December 2024

Department of Emergency Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar; Department of Emergency Medicine, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University, London, UK. Electronic address:

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This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To determine the benefits and harms of injury prevention programmes on anterior cruciate ligament injuries.

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Editorial: Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and related disorders.

Front Cell Neurosci

December 2024

Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.

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Trauma has been one of the world's most common causes of death among younger age groups. In the UK, a lack of an organized and streamlined approach was reported in the management of traumatic injuries and patients involved in trauma cases in the UK. Therefore, a major trauma network system was devised to address these issues in line with other trauma systems around the world.

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Background: CLASSIC-MS explored long-term outcomes of patients treated with cladribine tablets.

Objective: Assess long-term efficacy in patients previously enrolled in ORACLE-MS, a Phase III parent trial.

Methods: ORACLE-MS included patients with a first clinical demyelinating event (FCDE or clinically isolated syndrome) who received ⩾1 course of cladribine tablets or placebo.

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Structured tailored rehabilitation after hip fragility fracture: The 'Stratify' feasibility and pilot randomised controlled trial protocol.

PLoS One

December 2024

Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Life Course and Population Health, Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.

Background: Rehabilitation in hospital is effective in reducing mortality after hip fracture. However, there is uncertainty over optimal in-hospital rehabilitation treatment ingredients, and the generalizability of trial findings to subgroups of patients systematically excluded from previous trials. The aim of this study is to determine the feasibility of a randomized controlled trial which aims to assess the clinical- and cost-effectiveness of adding a stratified care intervention to usual care designed to improve outcomes of acute rehabilitation for all older adults after hip fracture.

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Whole Gut Motility Patterns in Patients with Chronic Nausea and Vomiting.

J Clin Med

November 2024

Department of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Goedstrup Hospital, 7400 Herning, Denmark.

Chronic nausea and vomiting (N/V) disorders are common in clinical practice. Our primary aim was to compare total and segmental gastrointestinal transit times as well as gastric contraction patterns in patients with chronic N/V syndrome to those of healthy volunteers (HVs). In the patient group, our secondary aim was to explore how symptoms and motility patterns were affected by a serotonin HT receptor agonist (Prucalopride).

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Avoiding epidural adhesion following spinal surgery can reduce clinical discomfort and complications. As the severity of epidural adhesion is positively correlated with the inflammatory response, implanting a fibrous membrane after spinal surgery, which can act as a physical barrier to prevent adhesion formation while simultaneously modulates postoperative inflammation, is a promising approach to meet clinical needs. Toward this end, we fabricated an electrospun core-shell fibrous membrane (CSFM) based on polylactic acid (PLA) and infused the fiber core region with the potent natural anti-inflammatory compound docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).

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Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Traumatic Injury in the Adult and Immature Brain.

Nutrients

November 2024

Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to substantial disability and health loss. Despite its importance and impact worldwide, no treatment options are currently available to help protect or preserve brain structure and function following injury. In this review, we discuss the potential benefits of using omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (O3 PUFAs) as therapeutic agents in the context of TBI in the paediatric and adult populations.

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Background: Non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pulmonary disease (PD) is a significant concern in China, compounding the existing burden of TB. This review aims to summarise the treatment outcomes for NTM-PD in China.

Methods: We reviewed the evidence on NTM-PD, including treatment regimens and clinical outcomes, from 17 studies identified through screening of three Chinese biomedical databases.

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Tuberculosis in adult migrants in Europe: a TBnet consensus statement.

Eur Respir J

December 2024

Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Borstel, Germany.

Introduction: Global migration has increased in recent decades due to war, conflict, persecutions, and natural disasters, but also secondary to increased opportunities related to work or study. Migrants' risk of tuberculosis (TB) differs by reasons for migration, socioeconomic status, mode of travel and TB risk in transit, TB incidence and healthcare provision in country of origin. Despite advances in TB care for migrants and new treatment strategies, decisions for the management of migrants at risk of TB often rely on expert opinions, rather than clinical evidence.

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Introduction: Cladribine is a deoxyadenosine analogue that can penetrate the blood-brain barrier. It is used to treat multiple sclerosis (MS). However, the mechanistic understanding of the effect of this highly effective therapy on B cells and plasma cells in the central nervous system compartment is limited.

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Background: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) is the most life-threatening form of undernutrition, and children hospitalised with complications have unacceptably high mortality. Complicated SAM is a multisystem disease characterised pathophysiologically by muscle wasting, systemic inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, and malnutrition enteropathy including epithelial barrier dysfunction. There is a clear need for novel interventions to address the underlying pathogenic perturbations of complicated SAM.

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This paper draws from qualitative research undertaken with the mothers and primary caregivers of children aged under 5 years old and in recovery from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), as well as other community members, across three study sites in Kenya, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The paper highlights how nutrition-related stigma is constructed and enacted in complex ways, by multiple actors and across diverse settings. Adopting an intersectional approach, the paper identifies how stigma emerges at the intersections of social identity, especially age, gender, and associated beliefs about women's, and especially young women's, assumed (in)capacity to care.

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Background: The Esophageal Hypervigilance and Anxiety Scale (EHAS) is an English questionnaire created in the USA to assess these factors in all patients with esophageal diseases. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Japanese version of EHAS and investigate the relationship between EHAS scores and symptoms in untreated disorders of esophagogastric junction (EGJ) outflow.

Methods: This prospective study recruited patients who underwent high-resolution manometry (HRM) at six tertiary centers in Japan.

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Preoperative gastric retention in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography.

World J Gastrointest Surg

November 2024

Liver Centre, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL, London E1 2AD, United Kingdom.

We comment on the article by Jia , in the . We focus mainly on the factors that impair gastric motility and cause gastric retention in the pre-operative setting of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). ERCP is a complex endoscopic therapeutic procedure, which demands great skill from the endoscopist but also has recognized complications.

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In reply: Evaluating AI models for ECG interpretation accuracy.

Am J Emerg Med

November 2024

Hamad Medical Corporation, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar; Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University, London, UK. Electronic address:

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Background: Few trials have explored long-term effects of interventions designed to reduce child stunting. We evaluated school-age outcomes in rural Zimbabwean children who received cluster-randomised water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and/or infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions from pregnancy up to 18 months of age.

Methods: The Sanitation Hygiene Infant Nutrition Efficacy (SHINE) trial enrolled pregnant women from two rural Zimbabwean districts (Chirumanzu and Shurugwi) between 2012 and 2015, and cluster-randomised them using a 2 × 2 factorial design to standard-of-care, WASH, IYCF, or combined WASH & IYCF, with a co-primary outcome of height-for-age Z-score and haemoglobin at 18 months (clinicaltrials.

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Context: Primary central nervous system tumours have poor survival outcomes. Surgery, the first-line treatment, presents technical limitations, such as visualising the whole tumour border. Intracranial impedance monitoring and electrocorticography techniques provide insights into the local field potential characteristics, resistance and capacitance properties of brain tissue.

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Purpose: To systematically identify and evaluate interventions to improve work participation for adults with upper limb musculoskeletal conditions, and explore contextual factors and mechanisms that suggest how the intervention is effective, for whom, and in what setting.

Methods: The review protocol was pre-registered with PROSPERO (CRD42023433216). Eligible studies met the following criteria.

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Article Synopsis
  • Long-acting antiretroviral therapy (ART) using cabotegravir (CAB) and rilpivirine (RPV) has the potential to revolutionize HIV treatment, but its uptake remains slow in accessible countries due to operational challenges and lingering clinical questions.
  • Recent clinical trials indicate that CAB+RPV injections are effective and well-tolerated, while real-world studies show high adherence and low virological failure rates in practical settings.
  • Despite the low risk of virological failure, inconsistencies in defining it across studies complicate the interpretation of results, emphasizing the need for more comprehensive long-term studies in varied populations to better assess the treatment's effectiveness.
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